Malcolm X Quotes

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• One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think…
• We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting…
• The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to…
• The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by…
• Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
• Growing is the result of learning.
• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle…
• When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic,…
• It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the…
• A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
• I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as…
• ...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
• I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred…
• Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is…
• The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the…
• The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his…
• That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly…
• The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to…
• In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know…

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